Transport / NorthLink opens bookings for 2025
PEOPLE can now make bookings on the NorthLink ferry service for next year.
Bookings have opened up today (Wednesday) for the whole of the 2025 calendar year.
This was the second fare increase in less than 12 months.
Before today bookings were only open through to the end of December 2024.
NorthLink said it wished to thank customers for their patience regarding 2025 bookings being opened up.
Shetland MSP Beatrice Wishart welcomed the news but said “these repeated annual delays impact advance planning of trips, are a source of great frustration locally, and a solution must be found”.
“With two months until the end of the year many are still uncertain about their return ferry trips after the Christmas break,” she said.
“I have frequently raised the booking ‘cliff edge’ issue with the Scottish Government, and called for rolling bookings to replace the status quo, but the responses have sounded a bit like ‘the computer says no’.
“Is it really beyond the ability of Transport Scotland and Serco NorthLink to find a solution that can accommodate year round bookings with a proviso that passengers may experience a price increase before travel?
“This is a lifeline service and its top priority should be to meet the needs of the island residents that it purports to serve. That includes a booking system that can take reservations a year in advance, all year round.”
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